Fall camp underway

Practice No. 1 is underway, and from what little could be gleaned from the first half hour before we were ushered out of Farris Stadium, the Roadrunners are actually looking like a real football team.

Still a long way to go, obviously, but from the standpoint of mere cosmetics, the addition of another recruiting class does wonders. They just look better. As for how they play…we’ll find out over the next four months.

Some notes until access resumes at the end of practice (5:30ish):

* Doing a little informal chatting along the sidelines, this year’s class measured out better upon arrival than last year’s during Saturday’s conditioning tests.

* Defensive tackle Ashaad Mabry, the former MacArthur standout who is in the process of completing his transfer from Oklahoma State, is unable to participate until his paperwork clears. No official word when that might happen, but it’s likely an ASAP sort of deal, once the wheels of bureaucracy finish their turn.

* The team looked healthy from my very unofficial measure, including tight end Cole Hubble, who missed the latter portion of fall camp with a broken collarbone.

* Even though it’s way too early to be projecting lineups — like, light years too early (I might have more on that later) — here were what appeared to be the first groups during the portion of practice we saw: